I have been working away on my 6mm terrain for playing WWII at the Battalion
level in 6mm for the last couple of weeks. This is the first 6mm project I have
done and I as mentioned before I am really doing this on a minitaure scale as I
am running out of space.
We have had 2 test games now and the ruleset seems to
work well at this scale over the airways. I am also finding the ruleset quite a
lot of fun, I have found all three reulesets that David Brown as put out
recently much to my liking.
Certainly terrain for this scale is quite a bit more
of a challenge for me that the 20 or 28mm terrains I have done for my other
scales. You really need to do much more from scratch and in a lot of cases the
terrain works more on an expressionistic scale than on the details.
To make things simple for myself I just converted everything from inches to centimetres, so noting that the terrain used in the demo videos was 60x72", I decided to lay things out on a 60x72cm mat. I think this might be a little small but it easier for me to go up inrespect to mat size than smaller. I felt 40 square centimetres was a good size for 1 BUA. I decided to scale everything else to this size, and since I was focused on EW and MW Ostfront, the terrain would be much more rural than what I have done in the past. I still have a lot to do and improve on but what follows are photos of my first go.
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Ruined Factory Complex (I think I could of up scaled thesebuildings). This is a 2 BUA in size. |
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A small 1 BUA Workshop Complex |
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Roads are always a challenge, these are rural dirt roads, I need to work on my road colour scheme. |
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Forests and fields with 2 German recon vehicles. |
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A 1 BUA farm with fields, the fields are suppose to represent corn fields, the height is right but I blelive they need to have narrower rows. |
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Only store bought terrain are the rivers, from the old JR Miniatures 6mm line. |
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A 3 BUA village with some T-34's. Everything has been printed on a Photon Zero resin printer. |
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Panzer III's traveling past the workshop. |
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Yes a Russioan Church from 3D Print Terrain |
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The Zoom View Screen Capture |
That looks great John. I’ve found 6mm terrain quite a challenge. I’d be interested to see how you make your forests; can you put units inside?
ReplyDeleteLooks beautiful. I think 6mm is a great scale for O group.
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